Stavropol students proposed building wind farms in the Arctic

STAVROPOL, April 3. /tass/. The qualifying stage of the Case-in international engineering championship in the field of Electric Power Engineering is being held at the North Caucasus Federal University (NCFU). The participants present projects for external power supply to the Yamal-LNG plant, located in the village of Sabetta in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug; among the students' proposals were ideas for the construction of wind farms, a TASS correspondent reports.

"The Arctic is an important region, and we need personnel from all over the country. Stavropol has a lot of experience in the electric power industry," said Vitaly Khotsenko, Minister of Energy, Industry and Communications of the region, at the opening of the competition day of the championship.

Nine teams took part in the competition and were asked to analyze the current and future balance of power and electricity at the Yamal-LNG industrial site, which is engaged in natural gas liquefaction. Future specialists need to propose a scheme for the development of the external power supply of the enterprise, taking into account the construction of new lines of the plant.

"The tasks are getting more complicated every year, and tasks have been proposed for a very interesting Arctic development project. The difficulty lies in the remoteness from the developed infrastructure, the unified energy system, and supply routes," Fyodor Mikhailenko, adviser to the general director of the Unified Energy System System Operator, United Dispatch Management of Southern Energy Systems, told TASS.

Many teams have come to the conclusion that it is necessary to create an isolated power supply project. "We have decided to install a fleet of wind power plants, the wind power plant will generate electricity at a lower cost <...> The included transformers allow operating at temperatures from minus 60 degrees to plus forty," representatives of one of the teams said.

The International Case-in Championship is a competition in which student teams solve a case- practical engineering problem in 10 days, based on a real production situation and prepared based on materials from industry enterprises. The teams then defend their ideas before an expert panel, which consists of representatives from industry companies, as well as scientific and educational organizations. The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the non-profit partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and Astralogica LLC.

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